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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
Brief M ton.

Business houses and residences in Paris are
now lighted by the Edison incandescenr electric
light.
Twenty-Five young business men of Carthage
have formed company to ouy land in western
Kansas and start a town. committee of five
has gone on to select a site.
Miss Laura, daughter of Col Charles Floyd,
died in Highland Park on Friday from diph-
liberia. Mr. Floyd, who has lived there for
many years, is member of the Board of Trade
of Chicago.
The farmers of New Lenox township Will
county, are alarmed at the spreading of Texas
fever from the herd in which it first appeared to
adjoining farms. Two of Mr.. Werners cattle
died Friday. and sixteen died in Florence town
ship, Wilmington, the route through
which the Texas cattle were driven.
The Paris races at Sheppard Park will COM
mence on Wednesday and continue three days
The entries include one hundred horses; besides
these Miss Nellie Burke will give three exhibit
tons daily with fifteen trained horses aud fifteen
grey hounds She has the fsstest team of run
ming horses that ever were puuinl harness.
As party of young men aud women were
returning ihome in Hutton township, Coles
county, from party in the neigh borhood, Wick
McMorris and Charles Rodgers commenced
shooting with reyovsrs. accidentally hitting
Miss Fiuey Handlsy in the side. The wound is
thought to be fatal. Officers are out to arrest
the shooters.
The Henry County Old Settlers Association
Is erecting double logcabin the fair
grounds in Cambridge. They intend to have it
tribCted by the old residents of the county and
relics of early pioneer life will be gathered up
and put on exhibition at the cabin at each annual
meeting of the association.
Melvin Mace, charged with having set fire to
and burned the house in which he lived last No
vember in kinmundy, which insured in a
rockford company has been taken to Salem and
lodged in Jail. He was indicted for arson last
February. but heretofore has escaped arrest.
His trial will take place at the August term of
court. and his wife. at present resident of ST.
Louis, is the prosecuting witness.
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sure good start. no watering is necessary; but
IL not, and the soil is dry. / prefer to water In
setting out or rather transpianting any kind Of
plants, either in the spring o. fall, l
prefer to take up few plants at a time
have a shallow dish, mix in il GOOD
rich soil and water to the consistency of thick
cream, and into this dip the roots working to get
as much of the soil to adhere to the roots as
possible. Take pains not to allow the stem or
foliage of the plant TO get covered with it. as it
Will bake and harden in the not sun and iniure
the plants Spread out the roots carefully and
then cover with soil, taking pains to press the
soil firmly about the roots. This is a very i'm
portant part of the work and failure to do this
properly is the most frequent cause of failure
If the weather is very hot and dry, I prefer to
water for three or four days afterwards IF well
or cistern water is used, it should be drawn up
IN the morning and be allowed to stand in the
sun all day. prefer to water at evening If
the soil is moist and the weather showery no
water is necessary. The advantage of setting
out the plants in August is that the plants make
better, stronger growth before cold weather
sets in, and are better able to stand the winter
and on that account will produce a partial crop
the first year after setting out.
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The Special Features of the Journal
are of Great Value.

The decisions of the Supreme and local courts are
carefully reviewed by special reporters, and will be
accurate and comprehensive. No attorney afford
to be without these reports in other way he
keep so fully informed and abreast of the times.
In addition to its features. the Journal enjoys
the services of of the best known writers in the
literary field. among them many of the favorte con-
tributors to the leading magazines of the country
who viii furnish regular articles The increase in
space will permit the DAILY JOURNAL to pay more
attention it's miscellany and selected reading than
This will be appreciated by the large class OF
readers who interested in other matters than
merely the and current political discussions Of
the day.
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Minor Notes.

James Sheefner, of Goshen. died of lock jaw,
caused by running rusty nail in his foot several
days ago.
Reason Chapman. wealthy farmer of Har-
rison township, Davess county, aged seventy
three years, was struck by a limb which fell
from a tree while at work in a clearing, and
was Instantly killed.
On Saturday night attempt at robbery was
made the postofice at North Manchester.
The tools were left where the robbers were en-
deavoring to break in. The thieves are sup
posed to have besn frightened away by shatter-
ing of glass, that being the only damage.
Nancy Swope, the white woman who killed
Sarah Dawson, the colored woman, at Summit
vile. Wednesday, was brought before Justice
Roach and, waving a preliminary trial, was re-
manded to jail without bail. The prisoner was
completely broken down, and passed most of
her time in wheeping and bewailing her fate
Her trial will be had in August. when som
startling Developments concerning Summitvill Q
society will be made
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The Value of Advertising to Farmers

W. W. PrIgg. SWINE Breeders journal.
That iudicous advertising is essential to the
highest degree of success, cannot be denied.
Our most successful in all professions of
life acknowledge its worth and call it into con-
slant reauistion. 1t might be presumed that
the established breeder with a national reputa-
ton could rely on the stock he sends out to
advertise his business, and indeed this is a great
advertiser, but for at least two good reasons he
is compelled to the columns of the organ of
his industry drop from his high place in his
calling. First. the breeding industry. although
a standing and interchangeable one. is con-
stantly receiving new recruits from the ris-
Ing generations, and TO reach these and acquaint
them with what have. must advertise,
Second-The world is progressive, and if man
drop from public print he Is presumed to be out
of the business satisfied to take lower seat,
hence his patronage slowly but surely drifts
from him and is caught up by some live
who advertises his business We will next
notice the mission of advertising. Many per-
sons and parties suppose that if they carry a
good ad, they can lean back their dignity
and watch their bank account grow while the
ad., sells their hogs have heard men say, II
will not again advertise in this that paper; it
gives me inquiries but no sales" Now l claim
That if it gives plenty of inquiries it has per-
formed its mission
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Obtaining Good Farm Hands.

Germantown Telegraph.
There are many complaints of the scarcity of
good farm help, and of the general worthlessness
of that which is available, and there Is much dis
cusslon as to the best methods of rem ying this
of things. It is scarcely the laborer who is
to blame in this matter; much of the fault has
been with ourselves.
In past times the farmer has been often
pressed for hands, and, anxious to get some one,
he has taken the first one that came along. He
wanted and he had the exact wages to
give, and the man came, and in due time re-
ceived mans wages. The kind of man hardly
ever entered into tho calculation. To be sure, we
all preferred good man to a bad one, but we
took little steps toward finding out before en-
gaging whether the man good or bad. He
was hred-only the mental resolve was that If
good for nothing he would not be kept long
AT time farmers were particular about
their reputation and character. When they left
situations they obtained from their employers
certificates of character and ability. But the
anxiety to get some one led farmers TO disre-
gard these protecting agencies, and they hardly
cared read them. At length they became
tout of fashion," and we rarely hear any
more about them.
But the result of this indifference works
against the good hand and in favor of the bad
one All get places equally well, and all get
the wages precisely alike. The good one. to be
sure after he has worked a year or so and
proved himself, can perhaps get raise, he
has better chance of being retained longer in
situation than poor stick; but year is good
deal in mans life, and besides, however good
man will be, his job will often come to end in
s'prove" himself in another place for another
year, and on. 1t is hardly to be expected
that good men, or women either. for that matter.
will be well satisfied to continually compete in
this way with the Indifferent, and so not sur
preing that somehow another we find the field
left nearly all to the latter class.
Would not more care on the part of EMPLOYERS
in regard to previous character and behavior
help to produce better class of serviceg We
think OF course these papers never be
wholly reliable In this large country where
one can scarcely know his next neighbor one
would hardly know whether certificates of
character We're forged or not. People certifying
may be hundreds of miles away, or sometimes
in the goodness of their hearts they NAV give a
poor fellow better character than he deserved
in order to git rid Of him quietly All these Dos
sibities have to be borne in mind while examin-
ing them But with all these drawbacks they
would undoubtedly be of great value in MANY in
stances, while they would not make the case one
whit worse than when man is set at once 10
work and mo questions asked But there is
another way to obtain the necessary informa-
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ton; and this would be hy applying privately to
the last employer. who in this way could have no
motive to give false character in Withholding
the truth.
In regard to women help on FARMS tits chiefly
the disregard Of these certificates of character
that has brought on the domestic difficulties of
getting help so many deplore. The Intelligent.
smart girl is hardly to be BLAIR dior not entering
into competition with the host of ignoramuses,
all on the same footing regards wages and
character.
If some Intelligence office" shall ever start in
which first-class testimonials to character
and ability. both on the part of employer and
employed, required, it would be we'll sup
ported but it would be useless for any to
attempt this until employers and emplo yed
alike show that they value these things
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
ILLINOIS,

Charleston Must Have Whisky-A Popular
Vote Overridden by the Authorities.
Special to the Indianapolis journal.
PARIS, July 23.-Charleston. ILL.,, voted down
license last spring and a number of citizens
have been indignant at the result ever since.
This last week sixty different families agreed to
go to Nation and make their purchases if the
Indianapolis & St Louis railway would furnish
special train. The Eastern Illinois racing cir
cult were holding their races at Charleston dur
ing the week, and each day large crowds of peo-
pie were to go over to Nation account
of the low railroad rates and buy their goods.
The people authorities then took the law in
their own hands and opened the saloons, and it
is said that saloons and gam bling -houses
now running in full blast without police survell-
1anca
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He did his work we'll and is good lawyer He
is much better lawyer and creator man than
his father was. He came to Washington as one
OF the school of Tildens braiuy followers,
among the young men of the State, Jordan
and Lamont did Jordan, of course, is not as
young in years and looks the rest, but he Is
young in blood, and has energy and brains But
he is not q politician as Lamont and Fairchiid
/ do not know how much money Fairchild
is worth. but / should think that he ought to be
able to live in fifty thousand dollar house IN
Washington. If he wishes to- but why he should
wish to do just now, or should care to
purchase when real estate is on the top OF the
initiation wave don't quite see Possibly the
old gentleman Fairchild, elated with the promo
ton of his to the great office which he holds,
has made him n present of the house. given as
him "dowcher," one OF tho Western SEN
ators used to say. Besides Secretary Fair
child's wife comes from a wealthy family. She
is a niece of Horatio Seymour. and there has al
ways been money in that family, and a great
deal of it. good many curious people will
wonder why the Secretary of the Treasury
should just buy a ffty-thousand-dollar
house; but he afford it beyond oues-
ton At oil events Secretary Fairehild has
bought this great house, and very different from
the great majority of modern expensive houses
or gingerbread ornamentation about it which
characterizes so many OF the new houses here
In fact, the first question would, perhaps.
ask from a casual glance at it, why did the Sec
rotary OF the Treasury purchase such an old
fashioned house when there are many newer
and handsomer ones that he could buy2 The
mouse Is not an old mouse; on the contrary, IL Is
new and expensive house. although it looks as
old in its style of architecture that comfort
able old house OF Judge Wyle, of tn g District
Judiciary. retired, which has been built about
the reservation that is now known as the Thomas
Circle for probably forty years 1t is old in the
style of it's architecture. and it Is old In
another respect 1t is old in the style of its
comfort; it is not ''cabned, crboed, confined
house "eighteen-foot lot" running to the
sky. It is wide, spacious oid-school house,
with great rooms on both sides of the front door,
h Inh eaf1i nDz lar gar
frpperies about 1t. It is large enough to be on
the corner of three streets. geographical char
acteristic which does not often happen to houses
outside of Washington. 1t is on the corner of
New Hampshire avenue, Twenty and o
streets. This means that the house is located
the corner of the rght-angled streets Twenty
second and o at the point whore these streets
intersected by the diagonal avenue named
New Hampshire. South of the house is one of
nose small government reservations which are
ne lungs and the little gems OF Washington
North of it is the house which Sunset
Cox is building the lot just south of the
house which he sold before he went as minister
tn Turkev
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
A Suicidal ,Iumn.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SPRINGFIELD, o., July 24-This morning
nj. Helfrick, German, aged about ffty-four
jumped over precipice thirty feet high and
was instantly killed. The act was suicidal
caused by i'll treatment of his five children, and
the wind-up of a SPREE Helfrick owned con-
siderable property, and was we'll known, having
lived here since his arrival from Germany, over
forty years ago. Helfrick's neck was broken
and long cash cut in bis forehead by sharp
stones az the bottom of the precipice The act
was unobserved
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
All Kinds in the Two States.
Evansville Footpads Run Down and Arrested
Gas Found at Seymour-The Whisky
Question at Charleston, Ill.-Gleanings.


Evansville Footpads Promptly Run Down
and Placed Under Arrest.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, July 24-James Elliott car
penter, was sandbagged on the street, last night.
and robbed of a fine gold watch and some
money. Superintendent of Police hewitt and
his men went to work on the case and succeeded
in running the footpads down this evening and
recovering the watch. One of the criminals is
Madison Barnett, of Vincsnnes, and the other
NJ. A. Harty. of Mitchell, low employed on the
Evansville & Terre Haute railroad They are
supposed to be members OF gang of thieves
that are now infesting this county, robblng and
urda
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
Immigration Abuses.

Wilmington Special.
The Treasury Department is instituting a
quiet but vigorous investigation into the affairs
OF the emigration commissioners at New York
Many complaints and suspicious circumstances
have come to the knowledge of the department.
leading it to believe that there are, and have been
for long time, abuses and Irregularities in the
management OF the emigration Office at that
port. and it is expected that the investigation
will lead to the discovery of facts which will
warrant the government in terminating it's
contract with the board.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
Attacked by q Mad Cow.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
MARSHALL, July 24.-Ed and Frank Waldis
butchers, bought of John Sullivan, an
aged farmer, living a mile west of this city, and
when they went after the animal last evening"
the beast WAS found to have apparently gone
mad. 1t dashed at the two men, knocked their
horses down. and then. as Mr.. Sullivan attempt
ed to head off the frenzied beast, it ran at HIM,
knocking him down and injur;ng him seriously.
One hip was broken and severe internal in iuries
received. The cow was finally run down and
ohnt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
Represented by Special Correspond.
ents in Every Town and City in
ifs Field.

The Journal is represented at Washington and New
York and other large cities by tried and efficient cor,
respondents of wide putation, who will furnish
with full and extensive accounts of all matters of NH
lie interest. The vigilance of these correspondents;
guarantee that the readers OF the Journal will bs
kept fully informed in all that goes to constitute tba
history of the period In every town in Indiana and
such portions of adjoining States in its patron
izng field, the Journal is REPRESENTED by special
correspondent and great is taken to see that tba
of this section is given to the fullest exters
possible.
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THEINDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
DAILY, SUNDAY AND WEEKLY
The Most Complete Newspaper in all Department
Published in The State Of Indiana

The indianapolis Journal is now printed -.
its NEW HOE PERFECTING PRESS. and {,
arged form. The size of the paper has been inc..s
by fully 10 Per cent.-the columns are lenqtba..,
and the width of the page increased This cb
places the Journal very far ahead of what it has az
BEEN and it ranks in SIZE now with the paperr s ..
metropolitan cities of the United States The Ia
apolis Journal has long enjoyed and always has r..
tanned the distinction of being the leading newsn
of Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
A. Few Facts.

Servant Girl, in New York Epoch.
There is always good help to be had IL people
want to pay for it. The trouble is, some people
think they get good girl for most nothing
1t is cheaper for them to pay more and get a
good one for the cheap ones waste and break
more than their wages worth every mouth.
A good girl likes settled home. She does
not like to change around. 1t is only the poor
trash who want to change in hopes of lettering
fhArnsalVaa.
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Death from a Katt,e.nake,s Bite.

OAKLAND, July A.-WhiIe cutting oats, yes
terday, farmer named johnson was bitten by
a rattlesnake. from the effects of which he died.
He was binding oats when he ran into a large
nest of rattlers and succeeded in killing fourteen
of them before he was bitten Other parties
who came to his assistance succeeded in killing
eleven more
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An Ugly Case.

New York Graphic (Dem.)
The confession of Samuel E. Perkins makes
out an exceedingly ugly case against the Indian
apolis Democrats accused of doctoring the cleo
ton returns. IL convicted, their punishment
should be exemplary, and no good Democrat can
entertain any pity for them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
The Only Paper in the State Pub
fishing All the News Furnished
by the Western Associated Press
and the United Press.

The Journal enjoys facilities for receiving and pph
fishing the of the day in every way superior :
those enjoyed by any other paper in Indiana ana
equal to any in the country, being member Of bot,
the great press associations the reports of both III
Western Associated and United Press being received
at its Office, and presented to its readers to a.
fullest extent
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The General News and Commercial
Features of the Journal are I'M

The city news will be given much fully than
by any other paper in Indianapolis and reports Of all
occurrences will be presented with impartality and
completeness, by competent writers and newscather.
In this department in all others, the Journal
challenges comparison Particular attention will bs
given to its market reports financial and commercial
and the attention of bankers, merchants brokers and
all others interested in the markets is invited to the
Journals columns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
Republican Prospects in Ohio.

Cleveland Leader.
The Republican election lava guarantee the
purity of the ballot-boxes in all the great cities
Of the State. That is equivalent to a guarant tee
VI Republican victory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25

The girls who 60 into ecstacies over a new
pattern for knit lace. who grow enthusiastic over
making paper flowers. who read novels galore
who go to the opera whenever they get chance
who wear boots a size too small for them, who
say awful" forty times day, etc, etc, make
just as good wives as the other kind, and don't
you forget it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
Lo. the Voting Indian.

Tacoma CIV. ID Ledger.
1t is not generally understood that the Puy-
allup Indians were granted by an act of Congress-
at its last session, the right of equal suffrage
with the whites Many of the Indians are ex-
pectipg to vote at the coming election in Novam-
Der. 1t is understood that the most of them are
Democrats.
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High-Priced Clerk Hire.

Wheeling Intelligencer
The President was hardly back in Washington
before he had his Roman nose down to mis- desk.
Clerical services of this kind comes high at
b50, 900 year and house rent free
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-25
The Next Thing.

Minneapolis Tribune.
1t will be necessary to send a man to
look after Mr.. Stanley. These explorers re-
suire more looking after and accomplish less
rood than any other class of citizens.
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Pleased with the View.

New York Epoch
There is gentleman living Staten Island
SO infatuated with the view that he gets from
his house, that he walks up the hill every day
hsckwards
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In It's Winter Clothes.

st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Kansas City invitation to the President il
bound in sealskin. It is {. unique idea to faun
seaskin in seersucker season.
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Is Anything in Sight?

Il
It is about time to mention" Old Joe McDon-
I'D again for something in sight